PICKS OF THE PLATZES Day 10: The best free shows at Musikfest for Sat. Aug. 11

It’s the penultimate day of Musikfest’s 35th year, but there are plenty of great free shows left to see as the festival winds down.

Here are our Picks of the Platzes for this, the 10th day of Musikfest:

SATURDAY, Aug. 11

We Are Scientists, 9:30 p.m. Plaza Tropical. The New York indie rock band since 2006 has had four of its albums in the Top 40 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. In April, it released its seventh album, “Megaplex.”

Bret Alexander plays Lyricplatz at 3 p.m.

Bret Alexander plays Lyricplatz at 3 p.m.

Bret Alexander, 3 p.m. Lyrikplatz. As guitarist, sometimes singer and principal songwriter for revered northeastern Pennsylvania band The Badlees, Alexander helped give the band its two hit singles, "Fear of Falling" and "Angeline Is Coming Home" in the mid-1990s. He since has continued to perform solo and with his band Gentleman East, as well as producing, writing and performing with other artists.

Colony House, 9:30 p.m., Americaplatz. The Tennessee band plays a shimmering, pop-bending indie rock sound, and already has appeared on the “Conan” show and played major-market indie clubs such as Philadelphia’s Union Transfer.

Sleepwalkers, 5 p.m. Americaplatz. The quintet out of Richmond, Va., has a great 1980s-influenced indie pop-rock sound. If all of its songs are as catchy as the just-released single “Wake Up,” the band is going places. It’s making its Musikfest debut.

Qiet, 7 p.m. Volksplatz, Described by Brogan as “punk rock meets 1920s jazz,” the band mashes seminal Motown, global rhythms, world music and more. It’s returning to Musikfest after getting standing ovations the past two years.